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Cryotherapy at home
Evil Multifarious
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So it looks as though I have a pernicious little infection of molluscum contagiosum. I've gone for one cryotherapy treatment, and I am making an appointment for next Friday to get another one.
However, it is a pretty intense infection, and I had been scratching and rubbing as a normal human tends to do with their body, long before I realized I had a communicable infection. I want to be able to treat new, small infections that might arise on my chest, arms, or god forbid, face, before they autoinoculate and spread into larger infections.
Is there any kind of cryotherapy I could do at home? Is there any way to obtain liquid nitrogen or similar extreme-cold substances, which I could then administer with a q-tip? Preferably something that won't destroy my floor if I knock it over?
Salicylic acid is a possible treatment for molluscum but it's more of a long-term thing. I'd like something to suppress an early infection, and cryotherapy is the most efficient.
I'd rather not be reduced to eviscerating my bumps with a toothpick or sharp knife.
However, it is a pretty intense infection, and I had been scratching and rubbing as a normal human tends to do with their body, long before I realized I had a communicable infection. I want to be able to treat new, small infections that might arise on my chest, arms, or god forbid, face, before they autoinoculate and spread into larger infections.
Is there any kind of cryotherapy I could do at home? Is there any way to obtain liquid nitrogen or similar extreme-cold substances, which I could then administer with a q-tip? Preferably something that won't destroy my floor if I knock it over?
Salicylic acid is a possible treatment for molluscum but it's more of a long-term thing. I'd like something to suppress an early infection, and cryotherapy is the most efficient.
I'd rather not be reduced to eviscerating my bumps with a toothpick or sharp knife.
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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<edit> holy hell, it's only $11. I spent like $25 at my local store. :x
The citations seem pretty reputable:
^ Focht DR, Spicer C, Fairchok MP (2002). "The Efficacy of Duct Tape vs Cryotherapy in the Treatment of Verruca Vulgaris (the Common Wart)" (in English). Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 156 (10): 971.
Might be bullshit, but if it worked it would save you some trouble.
It's the standard treatment for molluscum. The doctor did it on saturday, just dipping a Q tip and pressing it against each nodule. It stings a bit, and the pain depends on how aggressive you are with it (I told her to press as hard as she felt was medically safe, because I didn't mind the pain and I want these fuckers gone).
It's also really cool to watch and listen to, because it's hissing like crazy and of course sublimating into a thick white gas (moreso when it comes near your skin).
Compound W and similar tend to be alcohol or acid - are you sure it's a freezing agent? I don't really care what's more or less painful, I care about what's effective.
Duct tape I've read about, but as a guy who's really hairy, I'm not the best patient for it. It is also very inadvisable to shave that hair because it will spread the infection around quite a bit, apparently.
Your best bet for liquid N2 from what I've read is to nicely ask a college lab for a bit in a styrofoam cup.
When I was in college I got some molluscum on the bottom of a couple toes and had a dermatologist do cryotherapy. It gave me ye olde corpse toe, but the molluscum managed to survive.
My then girlfriend's mom smacked me around and told me to cover them with with duct tape. They were gone in a week.
Edit - I understand about the "hairy factor" though. Still, it works.
There is Compound W, which is salicyclic acid, and then there is Compound W Freeze Off, which I linked and is a freezing agent.
Like I said, I dunno how well it works though.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.